May 18 Italian army under General Aosta surrenders to Britain in Ethiopia

May 30 English Army enters Baghdad, chasing pro-German coup government

May 31 32.0 cm rain falls on Burlington KS (state record)

May 05 Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa

May 01 "Citizen Kane", directed by &starring Orson Welles, premieres in New York

May 26 Ark Royal airplane sights German battleship Bismarck

May 21 The first US ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)

May 24 The German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic

May 21 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp

May 20 Sgt. Alfred Clive HULME 23rd NZ Battalionwon the Victoria Cross for valor at various places in Greece

May 24 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive

May 26 American Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Philadelphia

May 07 Cornerstone of Bank of America building at 300 Montgomery laid

May 10 Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland

May 15 Nazi occupiers in Netherlands forbid Jewish music

May 19 German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis

May 23 Joe Louis beats Buddy Baer on DQ in 7 for heavyweight boxing title

May 01 Allied evacuation from Greece completed

May 10 England's House of Commons & Holborn Theater destroyed in a blitz

May 21 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta

May 01 Orson Welles stars in Citizen Kane, premiering today in New York, NY

May 27 Allied troops begin evacuating Kreta

May 14 3,600 Parisian Jews arrested

May 16 Nazis forbid Dutch Organization of Actors (NOT)

May 16 Italian army under Aosta surrenders to Britain at Amba Alagi Ethiopia

May 27 German battleship Bismarck sunk by British naval force

May 22 Second Lieutenant Charles Hazlitt UPHAM 20 th NZ Battalion, won the first of two Victoria Crosses on Crete

May 28 British army begins evacuation of Kreta

May 08 German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean

May 10 Queen Wilhelmina on Radio Orange warns against treason

May 26 German occupiers begin youth labor

May 12 Great British convoy marches into Alexandria

May 22 British troops attack Baghdad

Jan 01 Russian General Zhukov appointed chief of General staff

Jan 03 Sergei Rachmaninov's "Symphonic Dances" premieres in Philadelphia

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